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Independent Communication Network (BIA) launched the ‘April-June 2018 Media Monitoring Report’.

2nd Criminal Chamber of Istanbul Regional Court sentenced artist Zuhal Olcay to 11 months and 20 days of imprisonment due to ‘insulting the President.’

Criminal organization leader Sedat Peker was acquitted of the charges imposed on him after threatening academics, who launched a petition during the curfews with the title, “We will not partake in this crime.”

An investigation was opened against BirGün Daily due to the news they covered on the ISIS massacre at a prominent nightclub in Istanbul, Reina, on 1 January 2017.

Kızıltepe 3rd Criminal Court of First Instance sentenced former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) MPs Erol Dora and Mehmet Emin Adıyaman to 15 months of imprisonment each due to ‘violating the Law on Meetings and Demonstrations No. 2911’.

The first action of Mustafa Varank after being assigned as Minister of Industry and Trade was to bring a media blackout on the news related to himself.

Rapper Ömer Sercan İpekçioğlu, publicly known as “Ezhel,” has been arrested in May with the allegation of ‘abetting the use of drugs’ and was acquitted in the first hearing of the case against him after staying in prison for 26 days.

European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) debated the legality of the provision, “Any person who aids and abets an organisation knowingly and willingly, although he does not belong to the structure of that organisation, shall also be sentenced for the offence of being a member of that organisation” within Article 220/7 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) in the application of Democratic People’s Party (DEHAP) Batman Central District Chairman Abdulcelil İmret.

The proceeding of judge Tuncay Elarslan, who was banned from profession following the July 15 Coup Attempt, started at Gaziantep 9th Assize Court.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Bülent Tezcan was sentenced to 30 thousand TL moral compensation due to his expression “fascist dictator” to describe Erdoğan.